cash register

Example Sentences

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The finish line isn’t moral resolution, but the banality of the cash register: a product governed where it matters most, at the point of sale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Now they’re changing the currency on the cash register.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025

The project was commissioned as part of the La Plaza shopping complex by Julia Carnell, the heiress to a national cash register empire based in Dayton, Ohio.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

They will deliver packages for Amazon or man a supermarket cash register to pay their bills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

Instead, I listened to the sounds around me—the rumble of ice from the drink machine, the ding of a cash register, the murmur of voices, and the occasional burst of laughter from nearby tables.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin